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Category: Personal Stories
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Published: Saturday, 17 December 2011 08:41
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Written by Lisa Wilder
Johnathon Boville is happy to shoot the breeze with anybody he meets - especially patrons at his new restaurant, Stuttering John's Bistro. The fact that he is a person who stutters has been no barrier to his social life, or to his entrepreneurial spirit. In fact, he believes that, as a memorable characteristic, his stuttering has helped him out as a successful local business person in the town of Oshawa, Ontario. People always remember meeting him.
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Category: Personal Stories
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Published: Sunday, 22 May 2011 12:02
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Written by Lisa Wilder
Stuttering and Big Cats DVD
The title of this DVD, Stuttering and the Big Cats, might make you think it is the field notes of some imaginative researcher who believes he has found a pride of lions with "roaring impetiments". However, that is not what it is about at all.
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Published: Sunday, 27 March 2011 10:45
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Written by Carla Di Domenicantonio
This article was originally published in the Winter 2011 issue of CSAVoices.
Mike Hughes
I reacted with numbing sadness and disbelief when news arrived that Mike Hughes had passed away on September 22nd, 2010.
Over many years, Mike had been a friend, a supporter and a mentor. We were linked by a common interest in stuttering.
For 22 years Mike Hughes was the Executive Director of Speak Easy Canada Inc., Canada’s first, charitable organization for people who stutter, which he founded in 1984. Based in Saint John, New Brunswick, Mike was already involved in helping those who, like him, stuttered.
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